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St Francis Comforted by an Angel (San Francisco confortado por un ángel músico)
Ca. 1620 · Oil; Canvas · Museo Nacional del Prado
For Saint Francis of Assisi · 4 October
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image 7.7×10 in on a 8×10 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
A lamb stands on the rough blanket, and above it an angel plays a lute. Saint Francis sits up barefoot on his bed, hands open, eyes lifted to the music. The Prado tells the episode of a musician angel appearing in the saint's humble cell, and makes light the true protagonist: an unreal light that floods Francis and transforms his everyday room. In the doorway a Franciscan friar comes in at that moment with a minute candle, and Francisco Ribalta, the museum says, presents the apparition as an extraordinary event the friar cannot see. The scene follows a design by Piazza engraved by Sadeler in 1604; Ribalta painted it for the Capuchin convent of La Sangre de Cristo in Valencia. A plain cross hangs on the wall. The friar's candle is all the light he has.
Sources: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 'San Francisco confortado por un ángel músico', P001062; read 2026-09-24. · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 'Saint Francis Comforted by an Angel', P001062; read 2026-09-24.